a balls-up

(British & Australian very informal!)

a situation in which everything goes wrong The trip was a complete balls-up from beginning to end.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Catarina	kah-tah-REE-nah (Italian), ka-ta-REE-na (Galician)	Italian, Portuguese, Occitan, Galician
VerÍSsimo	-	Portuguese
Mahoney	['ma:əni]
Huguette	-	French
Mykyta	-	Ukrainian
Slavica	-	Serbian, Croatian, Slovene, Macedonian